Word: tops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adults plant a child's garden of verse. Juvenile satire nourishes it. What British children did to The Ballad of Davy Crockett in 1956 should make Walt Disney shudder. Not a vestige remained of the 17 official verses. New versions ranged from "Born on a table top in Joe's café,/ The dirtiest place in the U.S.A." to "Born on a rooftop in Battersea/ Joined the Teds when he was only three...
...products are moving from the mills; the cold-rolled sheet, needed by Detroit's auto industry, will not be available for another two or three weeks. U.S. Steel estimates that its shipments of finished products will be only 25% for a while, and doubts that many mills can top that figure...
...were excluded. Lined up at the start in ten classes were cars from the U.S., Britain, France. Germany and Sweden. The entries that held all eyes were the new Chevrolet Corvairs and Ford Falcons, both competing in the same class (2,001 to 2,500 cc.) and each with top drivers and pit crews. Chevy made it a major effort, with five cars and a 25-man pit crew sponsored by the Denver Chevrolet Dealers Association. Not to be outdone, Denver Ford dealers entered three cars, with 15 experts on tap for split-second refueling and tire changes...
...classic of the screen, a sort of Tom Sawyer in the Alps. Based on James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky, the film describes the Alpine adventures of a teen-aged Swiss village boy (James MacArthur) who vows he will be the first climber to reach the top of the Matterhorn (known in the script as The Citadel) or die in the attempt as his father died before him. He joins the expedition of an English mountaineer (Michael Rennie) as a porter, and at the climax of the attempt discovers the long-sought passage to the summit...
Victory is within his grasp. Will he permit it to be snatched from him by the villain (Herbert Lorn), a sneery guide from the neighboring valley who sneaks off in the predawn darkness to beat him to the top? The last reel of the picture finds him chasing the wretch up what purports to be (but obviously is not) the sheer east face of the Matterhorn, in an exhibition of freehanded folly that made one old Alpinist who saw the picture snicker and inquire: "Why not do it on roller skates? It's just as safe...